Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran

Compares cuneiform commentary texts from first millennium Mesopotamia with early Jewish pesharim from Qumran, arguing that textual difficulties in the pesharim can be explained through interpretive accretion practices documented in Mesopotamian commentaries.

January 2019 · Bronson Brown-deVost

Elementary Akkadian

NEJS 101a · Brandeis University · Fall 2015

September 2015 · Bronson Brown-deVost